chirrup

English

Etymology

Variant of chirp.

Verb

chirrup (third-person singular simple present chirrups, present participle chirruping, simple past and past participle chirruped)

1. (intransitive) To make a series of chirps, clicks or clucks.
   • 1841 James Fenimore Cooper, The Deerslayer: Or, the First War-path, Chapter 17,^[1]

     When other folks' squirrels are at home and asleep, yourn keep in motion among the trees and chirrup and sing, in a way that even a Delaware gal can understand their music!

2. (transitive) To express by chirping.

   The crickets chirruped their song.

3. (transitive) To quicken or animate by chirping.

   to chirrup a horse

Translations

to make a series of chirps, clicks or clucks

• Finnish: sirkuttaa (chirp like a bird); sirittää (chirp like a cricket); naksuttaa (click)
• Greek: κελαηδώ (el) (kelaïdó)
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• Maori: korotī
• Russian: чирикать (ru) (čirikatʹ), щебетать (ru) (ščebetatʹ)

Noun

chirrup (plural chirrups)

1. A series of chirps, clicks or clucks.
   • 1845 Charles Dickens, The Cricket on the Hearth, Chirp the First,^[2]

     And here, if you like, the Cricket DID chime in! with a Chirrup, Chirrup, Chirrup of such magnitude, by way of chorus […]

   • 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty, Bloomsbury, 2005, Chapter 9,

     […] the music flashed by in delirious chirrups and stampings.